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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 24 pages. Dimensions: 9.6in. x 7.2in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: . . . benefit the majority, because though the means may sometimes be ill chosen, the end is always the same. Hence the country prospers. Every one is interested in the welfare of the country, because his own welfare is bound up with it. This patriotism may be only an enlarged egotism, but it is powerful nevertheless, for it is a permanent sentiment, independent of transient enthusiasms. Its character appears in the childish intolerance of criticism which the people display. They will not permit you to find fault with any one of their institutions or habits, not even if you praise all the rest. 1 There is a profound respect for every political right, and therefore for every magistrate, and for the authority of the law, which is the work of the people themselves. If there be exceptions to this respect, they are to be found among the rich, who fear that the law may be made or used to their detriment. The infinite and incessant activity of public life, the responsibilities it casts on the citizen, the sense of his importance which it gives him, have stimulated his whole nature, made him enterprising in all private affairs also. Hence, in great measure, the industrial prosperity of the country. Democracy effects more for the material progress of a nation than in the way of rendering it great in the arts, or in poetry, or in manners, or in elevation of character, or in the capacity for acting on others and leaving a great name in history. Every one knows how prominent this trait is among the observations which European visitors pass upon America. It is now much less noticeable than formerly. I can even say from experience that it had sensibly diminished between 1870 and 1883. We now conic to the darker side of the picture. In demo-. racies, the majority is omnipotent, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, New India Publishing Agency, 2009. Hardcover. New. Traditionally women’s role in agriculture is staggering with nearly half of the population involved in agriculture and its related activities. Most of the agricultural activities are women specific but tragically worldwide women mostly end up as hired agricultural labourers with substantial gender disparity in wages earning far less than men in the same job. To add to her economic woes, inadequate education, less than satisfactory dissemination of technology, globalization, economic liberalization, commercialization, urbanization, political instability, natural disasters, mechanization of agriculture, decreased agriculture, migration of men to urban areas, and occupational health hazards such as prolonged hours of physical labour resulting in musculo-skeletal injuries, pesticide poisoning also make the life of rural women miserable. True, there are policies and programmes of central and state government to alleviate their problems but they are proportionately insufficient and their execution far from satisfactory. Much needs to be done in disseminating gender segregated data and gender bias in all aspects of agriculture, access to resources including land and natural resources, drudgery reduction, assuring nutritional security, diversification of activities of Self Health Groups and Street Shakti groups with emphasis on productivity including post harvest technology, creation of marketing facilities, ownership to land and other allied resources rural electrification, outreach from the media, collectives of women and inter linking of SHGs, adult literacy, health awareness, gender sensitization of extension functionaries and financials institutions, awareness about pesticide hazard etc. Tragically rural women are not vociferous on issues like foetal killing of female unborn, high rate of female mortality, creation of Special Economic Zones replacing productive lands, farmer’s suicide and the plight of their widows, fate of pavement vendors and petty shop keepers replaced by retail outlets of big business houses, etc. The struggle cannot be won by only educated and Non Government Organizations on their behalf. The affected and victimized have to fight directly against the injustice they are facing. Extension workers and NGOs need to help them to become aware of their rights and government programmes specially designed for them and motivate them to redress their problems on their own. This needs scientifically collected information on their problems and relief measures available. The book, Women in Agriculture and Rural Development is a sincere attempt in this endeavour. It has valuable chapters on gender inequality in agriculture, technological and economic empowerment of women, poverty alleviation and training programmes, role of SHGs and Street Shakti Groups in rural development, capacity building, nutritional profile of rural women, drudgery and its reduction, natural resources conservation and food security Contents Preface List of Contributors Section 1: Key Note Address & Plenaries Section 2: Interactive Session-Farm Women & Scientists Section 3: Empowerment Of Women Section 4: Capacity Building Section 5: Women Co-Operatives & Self Help Groups Section 6: Food & Nutrition Section 7: Drudgery & General Perspectives Printed Pages: 382., New India Publishing Agency, 2009, New India Publishing Agency, 2009. Hardcover. New. Traditionally women’s role in agriculture is staggering with nearly half of the population involved in agriculture and its related activities. Most of the agricultural activities are women specific but tragically worldwide women mostly end up as hired agricultural labourers with substantial gender disparity in wages earning far less than men in the same job. To add to her economic woes, inadequate education, less than satisfactory dissemination of technology, globalization, economic liberalization, commercialization, urbanization, political instability, natural disasters, mechanization of agriculture, decreased agriculture, migration of men to urban areas, and occupational health hazards such as prolonged hours of physical labour resulting in musculo-skeletal injuries, pesticide poisoning also make the life of rural women miserable. True, there are policies and programmes of central and state government to alleviate their problems but they are proportionately insufficient and their execution far from satisfactory. Much needs to be done in disseminating gender segregated data and gender bias in all aspects of agriculture, access to resources including land and natural resources, drudgery reduction, assuring nutritional security, diversification of activities of Self Health Groups and Street Shakti groups with emphasis on productivity including post harvest technology, creation of marketing facilities, ownership to land and other allied resources rural electrification, outreach from the media, collectives of women and inter linking of SHGs, adult literacy, health awareness, gender sensitization of extension functionaries and financials institutions, awareness about pesticide hazard etc. Tragically rural women are not vociferous on issues like foetal killing of female unborn, high rate of female mortality, creation of Special Economic Zones replacing productive lands, farmer’s suicide and the plight of their widows, fate of pavement vendors and petty shop keepers replaced by retail outlets of big business houses, etc. The struggle cannot be won by only educated and Non Government Organizations on their behalf. The affected and victimized have to fight directly against the injustice they are facing. Extension workers and NGOs need to help them to become aware of their rights and government programmes specially designed for them and motivate them to redress their problems on their own. This needs scientifically collected information on their problems and relief measures available. The book, Women in Agriculture and Rural Development is a sincere attempt in this endeavour. It has valuable chapters on gender inequality in agriculture, technological and economic empowerment of women, poverty alleviation and training programmes, role of SHGs and Street Shakti Groups in rural development, capacity building, nutritional profile of rural women, drudgery and its reduction, natural resources conservation and food security Contents Preface List of Contributors Section 1: Key Note Address & Plenaries Section 2: Interactive Session-Farm Women & Scientists Section 3: Empowerment Of Women Section 4: Capacity Building Section 5: Women Co-Operatives & Self Help Groups Section 6: Food & Nutrition Section 7: Drudgery & General Perspectives Printed Pages: 382., New India Publishing Agency, 2009, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Brand new book. At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic Adaptation to Life reported on the men's lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation. Now George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting for the first time what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement. Reporting on all aspects of male life, including relationships, politics and religion, coping strategies, and alcohol use (its abuse being by far the greatest disruptor of health and happiness for the study's subjects), Triumphs of Experience shares a number of surprising findings. For example, the people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. While the study confirms that recovery from a lousy childhood is possible, memories of a happy childhood are a lifelong source of strength. Marriages bring much more contentment after age 70, and physical aging after 80 is determined less by heredity than by habits formed prior to age 50. The credit for growing old with grace and vitality, it seems, goes more to ourselves than to our stellar genetic makeup. George E. Vaillant is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "Of the 31 men in the study incapable of establishing intimate bonds, only four are still alive. Of those who were better at forming relationships, more than a third are living. It's not that the men who flourished had perfect childhoods. Rather, as Vaillant puts it, 'What goes right is more important than what goes wrong.' The positive effect of one loving relative, mentor or friend can overwhelm the negative effects of the bad things that happen. In case after case, the magic formula is capacity for intimacy combined with persistence, discipline, order and dependability. The men who could be affectionate about people and organized about things had very enjoyable lives. But a childhood does not totally determine a life. The beauty of the Grant Study is that, as Vaillant emphasizes, it has followed its subjects for nine decades. The big finding is that you can teach an old dog new tricks. The men kept changing all the way through, even in their 80s and 90s."ÑDavid Brooks, The New York Times "Vaillant concludes that personal development need never stop, no matter how old you are. At an advanced age, though, growth consists more in finding new hues and shades in one's past than in conceiving plans for the future. As the Harvard Study shows with such poignancy, older men treat what lies behind them much as younger men treat what lies ahead. The future is what young men dream about; they ponder the extent to which it is predetermined or open; and they try to shape it. For old men, it is the past they dream about; it is the past whose inevitability or indeterminateness they attempt to measure; and it is the past they try to reshape. For the most regret-free men in the Harvard study, the past is the work of their future."ÑAndrew Stark, The Wall Street Journal "Triumphs of Experience elegantly summarizes the findings of this vast longitudinal study, unique in the annals of researchÉ [The] book analyzes how the men fared over their late adulthood, and indeed their entire lives. In it, Vaillant masterfully chronicles how their life successes, or lack thereof, correlate with the nature of their childhoods, marriages, mental health, physical health, substance abuse, and attitudes. Extensive quantitative findings are interspersed with the detailed stories of individual study participantsÉ Here Vaillant proves that his skills are literary as well as scientific. The case histories are engaging novelistic capsules that artfully bring the quantitative material to lifeÉ Many of its findings seem universal. If they could be boiled down to a single revelation, it would be that the secret to a happy life is relationships, relationships, relationshipsÉ The other overarching message of this book is that resilience countsÉ Vaillant is that rare thing: a psychiatrist more interested in mental flourishing than in mental illness. With Triumphs of Experience, he has turned the Harvard men's disparate stories into a single narrative and created a field guide, both practical and profound, to how to lead a good life."ÑCharles Barber, Wilson Quarterly "The factor Vaillant returns to most insistently is the powerful correlation between the warmth of your relationships and your health and happiness in old age."ÑScott Stossel, The Atlantic "In Triumphs of Experience, Vaillant elegantly and persuasively brings us an answer to the question that launched a thousand snake-oil salesmen: what makes for a successful and happy life? É[An] engaging work. There are regrettably few studies of this magnitude and even fewer accounts that so ably synthesize the broader insights with the moving parts."ÑChristopher Croke, The Australian "To avid consumers of modern happiness literature, some of Vaillant's conclusions will seem shopworn ('Happiness is love. Full stop.'), while other results of the Grant Study appear to confirm what social science has long positedÑthat a warm and stable childhood environment is a crucial ingredient of success; or that alcoholism is a strong predictor of divorce. But what's unique about the Grant Study is the freedom it gives Vaillant to look past quick diagnosis, to focus on how patterns of growth can determine patterns of wellbeing. Life is long, Vaillant seems to be saying, and lots of shit happens. What is true in one stage of a man's life is not true in another. Previously divorced men are capable of long and loving marriages. There is a time to monitor cholesterol (before age 50) and a time to ignore it. Self-starting, as a character trait, is relatively unimportant to flourishing early in life but very important at the end of it. Socially anxious men struggle for decades in emotional isolation and then mature past itÑrelatively speaking. Triumphs of Experience is not only a history of how the Grant men adapted (or not) to life over 70-plus years, but of how author and science grew up alongside them. Yet what unifies Triumphs is the same question posed originally by Bock, the study's founder: What factors meaningfully and reliably predict the good life? Vaillant's mission is to uncover the 'antecedents of flourishing.'"ÑDan Slater, The Daily Beast "Offers broadly applicable evidence about how everything from early maturity to grandparents' longevity is likely to affect flourishing throughout lifeÉ It is hard to overstate the wealth of the data provided in Triumphs of Experience or the ambition of the project, composed of survey responses, health records, and interviews. This archive of human life is poised to answer questions shorter studies can barely hint atÉ Vaillant offers striking conclusions about a range of factors affecting human flourishing."ÑAdam Plunkett, The New Republic online "Reading like a storybook, the case histories of the individuals provide fascinating insights about how the subjects tackled challenges or succumbed to setbacks. Vaillant superbly explains how these lifelong experiences sculpted these men's final years. Readers can learn more about themselves and what they may expect from life by reading this revelatory and absorbing book."ÑAron Row, San Francisco Book Review "George Vaillant's book on the development and well-being of a longitudinal sample of men, now in their nineties and studied regularly since they were undergraduates at Harvard University, reads like a riveting detective taleÉ He has a thought-provoking story to tell about the lifelong significance of loving careÉ Brief life-story vignettes illustrate movingly how adult development and maturation is a lifelong process that strongly relates to the transformative power of receiving and giving loveÉ [The book's] well-evidenced wisdoms on the significance of nurturing relationships offer new multidisciplinary perspectives on the complex issue of nature versus nurture (much needed at a time when medical science and genetics once more dominate studies of human development) and on the lifelong costs of childhood emotional neglect."ÑE. Stina Lyon, Times Higher Education "This fascinating book of 'numbers' and 'pictures' is the final summary volume of a longitudinal psychosocial study focused on the optimum health of 268 males from Harvard College classesÉ This book is well worth reading for the discoveries contained in its pages; it has the potential to advance knowledge about adult development."ÑJ. Clawson, Choice "A fascinating account of the 268 individuals selected for the Harvard Study of Adult DevelopmentÉ Vaillant has done a wonderful job summarizing the study, discussing its major findings, and communicating his enthusiasm for every aspect of the project, which became his life's work starting in 1966. The study has been investigating what makes a successful and healthy life. Initially, this meant looking for potential officer material for the military. Vaillant established what he called 'the Decathlon of FlourishingÑa set of ten accomplishments in late life that covered many different facets of success.' With humor and intriguing insights, the author shows how progress in health studies and the passage of time contributed to the constant 'back and forth between nature and nurture.' During Vaillant's tenure, human maturation and resilience became the focus, and now biology is reasserting itself in the form of DNA studies and fMRI imaging, the seeds for future research. The author considers the study's greatest contributions to be a demonstration that human growth continues long after adolescence, the world's longest and most thorough study of alcoholism, and its identification and charting of involuntary coping mechanisms. Inspiring when reporting these successes, his personal approach to discovery repeatedly draws readers in as he leads up to the account of his realization that the true value of a human life can only be fully understood in terms of the cumulative record of the entire life span. Joyful reading about a groundbreaking study and its participants."ÑKirkus Reviews (starred review) "Vaillant's fascination with the human condition and his deep insights about development make him a great storyteller, adept at elegantly conveying the essence of humanity."ÑLaura L. Carstensen, Director, Stanford Center on Longevity "George Vaillant tells the story of the Grant Study men though age 91. This is, arguably, the most important study of the life course ever done. But it is, inarguably, the one most brimming with wisdom. If you are preparing for the last quarter of your life, this is a MUST read."ÑMartin Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial relationships. Going to the grocery store or finding our cell phone requires sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. Making Space traces this mental detective work to explain how the brain creates our sense of location. But it goes further, to make the case that spatial processing permeates all our cognitive abilities, and that the brain's systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself. Our senses measure energy in the form of light, sound, and pressure on the skin, and our brains evaluate these measurements to make inferences about objects and boundaries. Jennifer Groh describes how eyes detect electromagnetic radiation, how the brain can locate sounds by measuring differences of less than one one-thousandth of a second in how long they take to reach each ear, and how the ear's balance organs help us monitor body posture and movement. The brain synthesizes all this neural information so that we can navigate three-dimensional space. But the brain's work doesn't end there. Spatial representations do double duty in aiding memory and reasoning. This is why it is harder to remember how to get somewhere if someone else is driving, and why, if we set out to do something and forget what it was, returning to the place we started can jog our memory. In making space the brain uses powers we did not know we have. Jennifer M. Groh is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Department of Neurobiology at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. "Groh's book describes the general process by which the brain conceives of space in a highly unconventional and entertaining stream of Jennifer Groh's consciousnessÉ It lays out a fascinating field of inquiry (which is really multiple fields interwoven convincingly, filtered by Groh's own thought processes) in a way that shows how a proper scientist thinks."ÑStephen L. Macnik, Scientific American "[A] wealth of beautifully intertwined information and knowledge about how sensation and perception work in the brainÉ There is much to praise hereÉ It is exhilarating to feel [Groh's] energy and cautious optimism about our capacity to understand how we perceive, and how that could lead to an explanation of how we go around and about in the world."ÑTristan Bekinschtein, Times Higher Education "Groh deftly elucidates the mental computations that allow understanding of location and boundaries, interweaving well-judged snippets of history. The mechanisms, such as the brain's updates on eye movements, are fascinatingÑas is Groh's revelation that neurons can 'do double duty' in tasks such as spatial navigation and memory."ÑBarbara Kiser, Nature "Jennifer Groh's wonderful book offers a much broader insight into how the senses we think of as separate gather information on our environment, and how nerves and the brain process the information to map our bodies and the worldÉ It's a fascinating subject that Groh describes wellÉ It's also an important one."ÑJeff Hecht, New Scientist "Making Space is written with a light touch, but with impeccable scholarship. It is extremely readable."ÑRandy Gallistel, Rutgers University "A terrific book; very imaginative, yet based on solid science."ÑMichael Gazzaniga, author of Who's in Charge, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014, Brookings Institution Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 348 pages. Dimensions: 9.1in. x 6.1in. x 0.9in.Fiscal systems throughout the world have been severely strained in recent years, as governments have assumed more responsibility for economic management. The developing counties, where needs are greatest and resources scarcest, have found their finances especially hard pressed. This book examines a range of issues in government finance that confront developing countries: the formulation and execution of national budget; the objectives, size, and effects of expenditures; the purposes and results of various ways of taxing income, wealth, consumption, exports, or natural resources; the role of foreign and domestic borrowings; and the consequences of financing by money creation. The book also relates fiscal operations to goals such as growth and development, economic stabilization, equitable distribution, and national self-reliance. The author stresses the need to take account of economic and political conditions and particularly administrative capacity when evaluating the suitability of fiscal measures in developing countries. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Brookings Institution Press, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 20 pages. Original publisher: Washington, D. C. : The Office ; Gaithersburg, MD (P. O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg 20884-6015) : The Office, distributor, 1997. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)37536758 Subject: Disaster relief -- United States -- Evaluation. Excerpt: . . . B-277479 FEMA needs reliable data to measure its progress in achieving its goals. The FEMAs Capacity to performance measures discussed in s draft strategic plan ( 1 ) include FEMA Provide Reliable approaches for long-term measurement processes that have not yet been developed and or ( 2 ) propose to use baseline data that are not yet Information on the available. The plan does not discuss what resources may be required to Achievement of develop the proposed measurement processes and data. Obtaining information for some performance measures may be difficult, costly, or Strategic Goals Is both. For example, Uncertain Data may be scarce for some of the plans proposed proxy measures. For example, one proxy uses, as its universe, communities that have ( 1 ) experienced a presidentially declared disaster, ( 2 ) implemented mitigation measures, and ( 3 ) experienced a similar type disaster within a 10-year period. Communities that meet all three criteria might be rare. One measure includes quantifying access to roads and transportation, educational institutions, medical facilities, utilities, water treatment, and businesses following a disaster. Depending on data availability and reliability, this measure may be difficult to quantify. In several cases, surveys are proposed as the methodology to measure performance. Depending on their size, scope, and rigor, surveys may be costly. s financial and information FEMA Also, as we and others have found, management systems may not have the capacity to generate sufficiently reliable information to monitor progress towards its goals. For example, s Integrated FEMA the 1996 financial statement audit indicated that Financial Management Information System ( ) was not fully I. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 82 pages. Original publisher: Washington : U. S. G. P. O. , 2010. LC Number: KF27 . E3 2010 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)645202518 Subject: Educational tests and measurements -- United States. Excerpt: . . . 11 Now we can go ahead in here - and this, of course, is all anony-mous data at this point. We are going to disaggregate by other groups. And we can see that students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch are growing at a 29th growth percentile, meaning they are only doing as well as 29 percent of the kids in the state with the same starting point. We go up a level and we can take a look at this school, which, again, would have lower achievement but much higher growth, and take a look at students in the other group category here, and we can see that for low-income students at Kearney, their growth per-centile is 74. 5, meaning they have got very high growth, making very high progress, even though in our current system of looking at AYP both of these schools would look the same, but we can see that there are dramatically different growth rates among them. So you know, this kind of disclosure fosters a much more in-formed understanding of school and student performance, one that all of our stakeholders are becoming familiar with and interest-ingly, our educator associations are strong advocates of, because of the ability for teachers to understand what performance is like in different schools. Federal policy can either support or hinder the understanding, ownership and effective use of performance information at the indi-vidual, local and state level through the metrics required and re-wards and sanctions established. As we reauthorize ESEA, it is critical that we get the federal, state and local roles right and give states sufficient latitude to build the performance capacity - the performance management ca-pacity of stakeholders to achieve the breakthrough results that we need. Incremental changes in this relationship in access to data wont even come close to the unprecedented p. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, London: Earthscan. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Some erasable underlining and notation in pencil.. London, Earthscan, 2010, 14 cm x 21 cm, XIV, 286 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Some erasable underlining and notation in pencil. Includes for example: No Escaping the Science / The Consumer Self / Disconnection from Nature / Is There a Way Out? etc. etc. This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it is now too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures. Clive Hamilton is author of the bestselling Affluenza and Growth Fetish, of Scorcher, and most recently Freedom Paradox. (Amazon), Earthscan, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2011. 2nd edition. Hardcover. New. Traditionally the term ‘Public Finance’ has been applied to the package of those policies and operations which involve the use of tax and expenditure measures, while budgetary policy is an important part to understand the basic problems of use of resources, distribution of income, etc. There is a vast array of fiscal institutions—tax systems, expenditure programmes, budgetary procedures, stabilization instruments, public debt policies, level of government, etc., which raise a spectrum of issues arising from the operation of these institutions. Further, the existence of externalities, concern for adjustment in the distribution of income and wealth, removal of poverty, etc. require political process for their solutions in a manner which combines individual freedom and justice. The problem of allocation of resources between public goods and private goods is a perennial problem. Then in a democracy there is a political process of voting to decide about the budgetary policy to be adopted. Therefore, now more attention is paid to a wider coverage of government activities relating to financial aspects and the subject is known as Public Economics. The present book is an excellent presentation of fiscal institutions and a careful analysis of the issues underlining budgetary policies in general and Indian experience in particular. Based on the curriculum prescribed by the University Grants Commission (UGC), it ideally caters to the academic needs of postgraduate students of Public Economics. Apart from the traditional topics of Public Finance, i.e. Taxation, Public Expenditure, Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Federalism, etc. the book contains chapters on Public Sector vs. Private Sector, Theory of Public Choice and Changing Perspective about the Role of the Government. Special focus of the book is on Indian Public Finances including the fiscal crisis of 1991 and fiscal sector reforms. All the chapters have been updated in the second revised and enlarged edition and it contains a new chapter “Welfare Criteria: The Provision of Public Goods”. New topics like Goods and Service Tax (GST), Direct Taxes Code (DTC), the Global Meltdown of 28-9 and India’s fiscal responses/stimulus and its consequent effects on economic recovery and fiscal stability have been dealt with. Contents : Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1. Introduction–Nature and Scope of Public Economics, Nature and Scope of Public Finance, Role of the Government in an Organised Society, Changing Perspectives about the Role of the Government; 2. Role of Government: Public and Private Sectors–Government Measures to Promote Economic Development, Rationale of Public Sector in Economic Development, Government as an Agent for Economic Planning and Development, Private Goods, Public Goods and Merit Goods; 3. Welfare Criteria: The Provision of Public Goods, The Voluntary Exchange Theory of Optimal Allocation, The Ability-to-Pay Theory of Optimal Allocation, Public and Private Goods in General Equilibrium, Optimal Allocation of Quasi-Public Goods; 4. Public Choice and Rationale of Public Policy–Problem of Allocating Resources: Private and Public Mechanism, Problem of Revealing Preferences and Their Aggregation, The Political Interaction Costs of Democratic Voting Theory, Revealing Social References through Majority Voting—Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, Point Voting Rule, Compensation Principle, Theory of Public Policy, Alternative Measures of Resource Mobilisation; 5. Public Expenditure–The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure, Growth of Public Expenditure, Classification of Public Expenditure, Canons of Public Expenditure, Incidence of Public Expenditure, Effects of Public Expenditure, Reforms in Expenditure Budgeting (Planning and Programming Budgeting), Zero Based Budgeting; 6. Taxation–Classification or Types of Taxes, Taxable Capacity, T Printed Pages: 604., Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2011, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2011. 2nd edition. Hardcover. New. Traditionally the term ‘Public Finance’ has been applied to the package of those policies and operations which involve the use of tax and expenditure measures, while budgetary policy is an important part to understand the basic problems of use of resources, distribution of income, etc. There is a vast array of fiscal institutions—tax systems, expenditure programmes, budgetary procedures, stabilization instruments, public debt policies, level of government, etc., which raise a spectrum of issues arising from the operation of these institutions. Further, the existence of externalities, concern for adjustment in the distribution of income and wealth, removal of poverty, etc. require political process for their solutions in a manner which combines individual freedom and justice. The problem of allocation of resources between public goods and private goods is a perennial problem. Then in a democracy there is a political process of voting to decide about the budgetary policy to be adopted. Therefore, now more attention is paid to a wider coverage of government activities relating to financial aspects and the subject is known as Public Economics. The present book is an excellent presentation of fiscal institutions and a careful analysis of the issues underlining budgetary policies in general and Indian experience in particular. Based on the curriculum prescribed by the University Grants Commission (UGC), it ideally caters to the academic needs of postgraduate students of Public Economics. Apart from the traditional topics of Public Finance, i.e. Taxation, Public Expenditure, Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Federalism, etc. the book contains chapters on Public Sector vs. Private Sector, Theory of Public Choice and Changing Perspective about the Role of the Government. Special focus of the book is on Indian Public Finances including the fiscal crisis of 1991 and fiscal sector reforms. All the chapters have been updated in the second revised and enlarged edition and it contains a new chapter “Welfare Criteria: The Provision of Public Goods”. New topics like Goods and Service Tax (GST), Direct Taxes Code (DTC), the Global Meltdown of 28-9 and India’s fiscal responses/stimulus and its consequent effects on economic recovery and fiscal stability have been dealt with. Contents : Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1. Introduction–Nature and Scope of Public Economics, Nature and Scope of Public Finance, Role of the Government in an Organised Society, Changing Perspectives about the Role of the Government; 2. Role of Government: Public and Private Sectors–Government Measures to Promote Economic Development, Rationale of Public Sector in Economic Development, Government as an Agent for Economic Planning and Development, Private Goods, Public Goods and Merit Goods; 3. Welfare Criteria: The Provision of Public Goods, The Voluntary Exchange Theory of Optimal Allocation, The Ability-to-Pay Theory of Optimal Allocation, Public and Private Goods in General Equilibrium, Optimal Allocation of Quasi-Public Goods; 4. Public Choice and Rationale of Public Policy–Problem of Allocating Resources: Private and Public Mechanism, Problem of Revealing Preferences and Their Aggregation, The Political Interaction Costs of Democratic Voting Theory, Revealing Social References through Majority Voting—Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, Point Voting Rule, Compensation Principle, Theory of Public Policy, Alternative Measures of Resource Mobilisation; 5. Public Expenditure–The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure, Growth of Public Expenditure, Classification of Public Expenditure, Canons of Public Expenditure, Incidence of Public Expenditure, Effects of Public Expenditure, Reforms in Expenditure Budgeting (Planning and Programming Budgeting), Zero Based Budgeting; 6. Taxation–Classification or Types of Taxes, Taxable Capacity, T Printed Pages: 604., Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2011, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Near Fine. 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. 0691016011 . A bright, solid book, card covers are clean and crisp , text unmarked.; B&W Illustrations; 9.60 X 6.50 X 1.30 inches; 372 pages; "The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this volume support the view that centralizing states--with their increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation, and armies--and large-scale commercial enterprises--with their requirements for standardization and mass production--have been the major promoters of numerical precision. Taking advantage of the resources available, scientists and engineers have entered a symbiotic relationship with state and industry, which in turn has led to increasingly refined measures in ever-widening domains of the natural and social world. At the heart of this book, therefore, is an inquiry into the capacity of numbers and instruments to travel across boundaries of culture and materials.Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the significance and the credibility of particular sorts of measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time they display the deeply cultural character of precision values. Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday, Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M. Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew Warwick, and M. Norton Wise." ., Princeton University Press, 1995, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these interactions, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on the worlds of early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. Both individual agents and objects such as texts and paintings helped mediate encounters between courts, which possessed rules and conventions that required decipherment and translation, whether in words or in pictures. Sanjay Subrahmanyam gives special attention to the depiction of South Asian empires in European visual representations, finding a complex history of cultural exchange: the Mughal paintings that influenced Rembrandt and other seventeenth-century Dutch painters had themselves been earlier influenced by Dutch naturalism. Courtly Encounters provides a rich array of images from Europe, the Islamic world, India, and Southeast Asia as aids for understanding the reciprocal nature of cross-cultural exchanges. It also looks closely at how insults and strategic use of martyrdom figured in courtly encounters. As he sifts through the historical record, Subrahmanyam finds little evidence for the cultural incommensurability many ethnohistorians have insisted on. Most often, he discovers negotiated ways of understanding one another that led to mutual improvisation, borrowing, and eventually change. 18 halftones, 3 maps. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A splendid book of felicitous erudition and critical inquiry, which should make the readers think afreshÉ Courtly Encounters does not give a na•ve picture of cultural assimilation. Nor does it suggest that cultural encounters and transactions should only be located in courtly high culture. Instead, it provides certain historical contexts, in which cultures meet, collide, coalesce, growl at each other and negotiate with one another at the same time, and with easy conscienceÉ History playfully provides many instances of cultural encounters and dialogues. That history defies a single, simple narrative indeed constitutes its richness. This book decants it in full measure."ÑB. Surendra Rao, The Hindu "Every page of this book is like a voyage of discovery. Subrahmanyam illustrates how encounters between peoples did not just take place 'out there' in the peripheries of imperial systems, but also in the very nerve centers of power, the imperial courts of Eurasia. From Persia to Aceh, royal households were settings for the making of mutual perceptions of Muslims, Christians and HindusÑwith powerful visual and textual accounts of sharing, killing, and martyrdom. While so much of world history accents the strangeness of global encounters, Subrahmanyam brilliantly illuminates how much intimacy was laced into the intrigue and violence of courtly systems."ÑJeremy Adelman, Princeton University "No historian paints on a broader canvas, or with more pointillist precision, than Sanjay Subrahmanyam. His account of courtly cultural interaction ranges across centuries and continents, helping us understand encounters as divers as those of Moctezuma and CortŽs, Timur the Great and the ambassadors of the Emperor Hung Wu. His theoretical acumen gives us new tools with which to think about the translation, transmission, and transformation of cultures. And his seemingly endless knowledge of sources in countless languages and artistic genres teaches us about the history of nearly everything, from the uses of gunpowder to the iconography of halos. Like a great museum, Courtly Encounters is a book to be visited again and again."ÑDavid Nirenberg, University of Chicago "Through an intriguing set of early modern events and the texts and images that emerged from them, Courtly Encounters considers the commensurability of cultures, memory and forgetting, imperial court violence and intimacy, the language of martyrdom, and the ebb and flow of images, ideas, and texts back and forth across Eurasia. After a scholarly lifetime of seeking out connected histories, Sanjay Subrahmanyam is alive to the lived experience of the past and its capacity to upend historical accounts narrowed by visions of 'Europe' and 'Asia' as separate spheres with separated histories. All historians should pay attention to his conclusion that encounters between societies don't just happen, but are made, and they are made, not between whole societies, but in fragments and fractions, including at the individual level."ÑPamela H. Smith, Columbia University "Subrahmanyam is a master historian to whom we owe yet another dazzling and penetrating account of how Europe and Asia interacted before modern colonialism. He unravels the creative and often idiosyncratic mix of emulation, coercion, and sheer improvisation that allowed people of disparate backgrounds to absorb and make sense of each other's traditions. Both the skeptics and the romantics in matters of cross-cultural encounters will find Courtly Encounters a rewarding and provocative read."ÑFrancesca Trivellato, Yale University, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 102 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: . . . depends upon the disruptiveness of the discharge and the lines can be made very narrow by the use of self-induction in the circuit. According to the above hypothesis, any light-source whose radiation is such as to give widened lines should give relatively large pressure displacements. A very high-current arc should give larger displacements than an arc with low current. Also, it should be possible to vary spark displacements by gradually taking out self-induction and increasing the capacity. No systematic experiments on these points have been carried out, and in any case comparative measurements would be difficult by reason of the large difference in the character of the lines produced by very diverse conditions of the same source. For sources widely different in nature, as are the arc and the furnace, differences in radiation can exert their full effect and still lines can be obtained in the spectrum of each whose measurements are fully comparable. SUMMARY The leading results of this investigation are as follows: 1. Sufficient material has been collected to give measurements of fairly high weight for the displacements of certain groups of lines in the iron, titanium, and vanadium spectra. Op. cit. , p. 41. 2. The measured displacements of iron lines for pressures from i to 24 atmospheres and for titanium and vanadium lines for 8 and 16 atmospheres as compared to vacuum show a close proportionality between displacement and pressure for these ranges. 3. The pressure effect in absorption has been developed as a useful method for certain kinds of lines, giving displacements in general of the same magnitude as for emission lines. 4. Temperature differences of at least 500 C. for a pressure of 20 atmospheres have failed to show a definite variation of displ. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 72 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: . . . price, one should certainly hesitate to spend more than 100 per cow for the barn, including milk room, and silo, and storage place for the other dairy feeds. On the corn-belt farm, where few cows are kept and where there is an abundance of straw, the cows may run in an open shed. If there is a milking shed in which the cows are milked and fed grain, very clean milk may be obtained. No system is better for the health of the animals than running loose in a good shed, but where dairying is made the primary business a regular dairy barn is ordinarily desired. rum AM AT (NO OF. BARN Fig. 43. --Cross section of a barn showing the King system of ventilation. The air enters near the ceiling on the sides and is drawn out through large flues opening near the floor. QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 1. What materials are used for barn floors in your region Describe the floor in some good barn, and tell how it was made. 2. What different kinds of stanchions are used 3. Are manure carriers used in any barns If so, what kind is used, and what did it cost 4. Does any barn in the region have the King system of ventilation If so, describe it. 5. If any barn has been built in the region in the past few years, find the cost per cow. 6. . Draw a floor plan. for a barn to hold 6 horses, 15 cows, and young stock. Or change the numbers of stock to suit the conditions. Show dimensions of stalls, mangers, etc. , and location of milk house. LABORATORY EXERCISES 12. Study of a Barn. Arrange with the owner to visit a good dairy barn in the region, and study its general arrangement. A tape measure and thermometer will be required. Some of the points to be determined are as follows: Length, width, height of posts, height of peak, height of ceiling in cow barn. Capacity for hay, silage, grain. See. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: . . . volume of the casing, deducting plunger rods, etc. A area in sq. ft. of well casing, minus the area of rods and pump casing, etc. q Specific capacity or flow in gal. per min. per ft. water is lowered. H Total head well is lowered by pump. h Instantaneous depression in feet. t Time in minutes since pump stopped. Thus at any instant the flow qh and the quantity discharged in time dt qhdt 7. 5 Adh. Hence, integrating between h H and h h, qt k (A)-. 7. 25. . (1-). Hence, q logl0 (-). Measuring and A, and H and A being known, is determined. This is an ingenious method of arriving at the flow, but it requires to be accurate, that 1. Practically all lost head must be in the porous medium. 2. The water must not be lowered in well beyond the top of the water stratum, from which it is derived. 3. There must be no other place for the returning water to flow, except into the well. In some cases it is possible that there might be some quantity of water flowing into a space where it would displace or compress air, due to the rise in pressure. 4. The well must not affect neighboring wells, or be affected thereby, should they discharge at the same time. Methods and Cost of Boring Wells. Unlike the case of machinery for pumping, it is impossible to give even an approximate figure on the cost of boring or sinking wells, unless the nature of the strata encountered be known. The best known form of well is the dug well, where the sides, if necessary, arc curbed with wood or masonry, to prevent caving of the earth. These wells are usually comparatively shallow. The drive well consists of pipe, on the end section of which is a strainer. The extreme end of the pipe is covered by a taper point which facilitates driving the pipe into the ground. These wel. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: . . . volume of the casing, deducting plunger rods, etc. A area in sq. ft. of well casing, minus the area of rods and pump casing, etc. q Specific capacity or flow in gal. per min. per ft. water is lowered. H Total head well is lowered by pump. h Instantaneous depression in feet. t Time in minutes since pump stopped. Thus at any instant the flow qh and the quantity discharged in time dt qhdt 7. 5 Adh. Hence, integrating between h H and h h, qt k (A)-. 7. 25. . (1-). Hence, q logl0 (-). Measuring and A, and H and A being known, is determined. This is an ingenious method of arriving at the flow, but it requires to be accurate, that 1. Practically all lost head must be in the porous medium. 2. The water must not be lowered in well beyond the top of the water stratum, from which it is derived. 3. There must be no other place for the returning water to flow, except into the well. In some cases it is possible that there might be some quantity of water flowing into a space where it would displace or compress air, due to the rise in pressure. 4. The well must not affect neighboring wells, or be affected thereby, should they discharge at the same time. Methods and Cost of Boring Wells. Unlike the case of machinery for pumping, it is impossible to give even an approximate figure on the cost of boring or sinking wells, unless the nature of the strata encountered be known. The best known form of well is the dug well, where the sides, if necessary, arc curbed with wood or masonry, to prevent caving of the earth. These wells are usually comparatively shallow. The drive well consists of pipe, on the end section of which is a strainer. The extreme end of the pipe is covered by a taper point which facilitates driving the pipe into the ground. These wel. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<